The VideoLAN project targets multimedia streaming of MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 and DivX files, DVDs, digital satellite channels, digital terrestial television channels and live videos on a high-bandwidth IPv4 or IPv6 network in unicast or multicast under many OSes. VideoLAN also features a cross-platform multimedia player, VLC, which can be used to read the stream from the network or display video read locally on the computer under all GNU/Linux flavours, all BSD flavours, Windows, Mac OS X, BeOS, Solaris, QNX, Familiar Linux. VideoLAN is free software, and is released under the GNU General Public License. It started as a student project at the French École Centrale Paris but is now a worldwide project with developers from 20 countries.

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To the features descried in the OP, it might be added that the player comes with own codecs and doesn't require messing with external ones.

It can also play packed and partly downloaded videos, even some damaged ones.

I have been using it for years as my main media player. It's easy enough for basic functions, but I point out that some of its additional features are not quite intuitive. But you can find tutorials on them.

Because many tech news sites are saying that VLC 3 is released and can be downloaded from there. Our infrastructure can't handle the load, plus it's not released as of now. Hold on for a few extra hours

There are bugs undisclosed. Hence, they removed the x64 installer temporarily.

Please note that the downloads provided in frontpage s/w updates, frontpage are official stable releases which I've already briefed long time ago in old version threads. I mean these:

FYI:

Anything from here ["https://downloads.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/" or "https://downloads.videolan.org/vlc/" or "https://download.videolan.org/pub/videolan/vlc/last/" and mirrors from "https://get.videolan.org/vlc/" or "https://get.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/" - inactive] are all Official Stable Downloads and Official Stable Mirrors!

@Israeli_Eagle Thanks for reminding. I didn't use that link for long post 2.2.5.1 since they are not updated when there is new stable release.

There are bugs undisclosed. Hence, they removed the x64 installer temporarily.

Please note that the downloads provided in frontpage s/w updates, frontpage are official stable releases which I've already briefed long time ago in old version threads. I mean these:

FYI:

Anything from here ["https://downloads.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/" or "https://downloads.videolan.org/vlc/" and mirrors from "https://get.videolan.org/vlc/" or "https://get.videolan.org/videolan/vlc/" - inactive] are all Official Stable Downloads and Official Stable Mirrors!

Just wanted to let you know that it now works on W10 x64 after uninstall deleting Preferences & Cache, then custom install.

by BTJB - 09-02-2018 21:22 GMT

26 minutes ago, p4psb said:

Just wanted to let you know that it now works on W10 x64 after uninstall deleting Preferences & Cache, then custom install.

I found this is not Final Stable version, this is just NIGHTLY FULLY BUGGY VERSION! Try the settings in Effects Filter, especially h264 MP4 mediaCrop function. It will stretch your video and after two three crops the screen will go to black!

by snf - 09-02-2018 21:33 GMT

6 hours ago, p4psb said:

Just wanted to let you know that it now works on W10 x64 after uninstall deleting Preferences & Cache, then custom install.

6 hours ago, BTJB said:

I found this is not Final Stable version, this is just NIGHTLY FULLY BUGGY VERSION! Try the settings in Effects Filter, especially h264 MP4 mediaCrop function. It will stretch your video and after two three crops the screen will go to black!

I did my test with 32-bit version. It is totally buggy version. No way for use. I stuck with 2.8.8 the best version!

by ShawnMiranda - 09-02-2018 21:52 GMT

Holy fuck. It finally scales to 3840x2160! No more tiny ass invisible buttons!

by rseiler - 09-02-2018 22:34 GMT

3 years and you would think that they'd find time to add support for its Windows taskbar icon to show video progress, like every single other player (and plenty of other programs where that's useful), but no.

Well..... And what can I say after testing a day... PotPlayer is way better!!!

by snf - 10-02-2018 16:06 GMT

1 hour ago, Israeli_Eagle said:

Well..... And what can I say after testing a day... PotPlayer is way better!!!

Realy yes .

by steven36 - 10-02-2018 21:13 GMT

23 hours ago, rseiler said:

3 years and you would think that they'd find time to add support for its Windows taskbar icon to show video progress, like every single other player (and plenty of other programs where that's useful), but no.

I took them 3 years and there still 3 years behind other players on Windows and Linux 10bit Hevc is still buggy and they still have no 12 bit support. other than i use it for streaming iptv sometimes witch is its strong point if you tweak it in settings i don't use it at all. Just about any player out is better for locally stored files . Other players update all the time with new features that work fine while it took them 3 years to try to get better 10 bit Hevc support and it's still buggy .. Its kind of sad since they was the 1st player that could play 8bit Hevc but still it's a CPU hog so it's not even really good for this . It may be ok if you mostly watch H264 and XVID still but when you have other players that play everything fine its not really worth launching but for streaming IPTV its hard to beat, but older versions can do this good even lol .

So other then security bug fixes, there is no good reason to update and there is never a good reason to beta test because stable versions always get patched .

by wallofasgard - 11-02-2018 06:15 GMT

Movie Subtitle search and download feature is buggy for me.Rolled back to version 2.2.8 (Weathermax) and its working fine again.

Are you using the new x64 or the old x64 installer? If new, then try the old one and vice-versa. If both doesn't work, then other nsane pals would help check from their end since I don't use Win 10 as u can see on the left below my profile name.

Many suggest ditching VLC over other programs. However, it is personal choice since VLC isn't getting enough now for their hard development for years. People install before VLC Official pages are updated with new release version and new changelog. Also, potplayer can be one of a hell as every month, one or two new version.

This will give you a better idea of what to choose as main player (of course, most users have other alternatives)

The best one for me is MPC-HC. i choosed it years ago because of its unmatched image quality & performances on my systems

Despite its ugly old fashioned interface, i'll never replace it with VLC as my default video files player.

by WALLONN7 - 12-02-2018 23:23 GMT

8 minutes ago, jordan4x said:

Try VLC, MPC-HC & PotPlayer (and any other player you want)

Just an addition to @jordan4x's list: DVDFab player 3 - They redesigned version 5 and I do not recommend it for now...

by Katzenfreund - 4 days 15 hours ago

I have been using VLC for many years. In the early days, there was an impression that its image quality was a notch below the best. But this has neither been confirmed nor do I know whether, if it was indeed so, it still persists after so many updates.

In any case, it’s possible to improve or adjust the image appearance to your tastes thro:

Tools > Effects and Filters > Video Effects

Maybe some other video players do some of these adjustments automatically, whether required or not, for the purpose of immediate albeit unreal appeal, e.g. by enhancing colors.

by PistalPete - 3 days 4 hours ago

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DVDFab player 3

Agreed, my player of choice.

by Archanus - 2 days 10 hours ago

On 12/2/2018 at 6:16 PM, jordan4x said:

Preferences are personal taste and should be made according to some tests too

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